These organic-shaped lamp sculptures by artist Pieke Bergmans are made with a unique mechanical process she developed that can be endlessly repeated to create the perfect result. Check out the link to her site below which details this process with some amazing photo essays. Pieke Bergmans
This RFID wearable flower is a nice way to integrate the technology in your clothing without making it seem too obvious that you are being mischevious. Well you might be mistaken for a magician instead. Anab Jain Projects via NeoNomad
Ring in the spirit of Halloween and the election in one fell swoop with these political pumpkins. Pretty funny depictions of Obama and Palin, while the McCain and Biden ones were probably just too freaky to show. via Core77
Chad VanGaalen makes music with a variety of objects turned instruments, including motorized mallets that bang on old drums and other objects he found while sifting through trash containers. Check out the samples on the link below, especially “Flower Gardens” which has some nice solos from the homebrew devices. Chad Vangaalen on Sub Pop Records
Normally MIG welding requires a big fancy machine, sometimes also with a large tank of pressurized gas. Instructables user TimAnderson managed to hack together a hand-held wirefeed MIG welding gun and a couple car batteries for a more portable effect. He writes: Here’s my new wire-feed (MIG) welder. All of it. They sell these things […]
I spotted this different take on a vertical-axis wind turbine at Maker Faire Austin last weekend: I haven’t found any further documentation on Rusty Forbes’ design online, but the Makers’ site claims this will work in winds from 5 to 90 miles per hour. Any takers to try and document building one? Also, check out […]
Spotted at Maker Faire, Peter Stanley’s electric tall bike may be my favorite vehicle of any kind: You can’t tell from the video that there’s no throttle: just an on-off switch. Because adding a motor to a tallbike wasn’t dangerous enough;)
